Verse 26

Moreover, you shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

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  • Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with its life, which is the blood, you shall not eat.
  • Lev 3:17 : 17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
  • Lev 17:10-14 : 10 And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, that eats any manner of blood; I will set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who dwells among you eat blood. 13 And whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, who hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all flesh; its blood is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any flesh: for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 But that we write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Eph 1:7 : 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;
  • 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving;
  • 1 Sam 14:33-34 : 33 Then they told Saul, "Look, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with the blood." He said, "You have transgressed; roll a large stone to me today." 34 Then Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, 'Bring every man his ox and every man his sheep, and slaughter them here, and eat, and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'" So all the people brought every man his ox with him that night and slaughtered them there.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
  • John 6:53 : 53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.